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Quick Items: Mauritania Piece, African Studies Association Events

I have a piece up at Foreign Policy‘s Democracy Lab that examines Mauritanian politics during President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s absence from the country after his shooting (he returned home on Saturday). I look at what the episode tells us about civil-military relations and institutional gaps in the country.

If you will be at the African Studies Association meeting this week in Philadelphia, please let me know. The program is here (.pdf). I will be part of three panels/roundtables. The first, on Thursday at 4:30, looks at blogging about Africa; Dr. Sean Jacobs and Dr. Neelika Jayawardane of Africa Is A Country and Dr. Laura Seay of Texas in Africa are the other participants. The second, on Friday at 4:30, is on conflict in the Sahel/Sahara, and was organized by Dr. Jacob Mundy of Colgate University. And the third, on Saturday at 4:30, examines Islamic universities in Africa and includes Dr. Ousmane Kane of Harvard and Dr. Mbaye Lo of Duke. If you will be speaking on a panel, please tell us in the comments. I hope to see some of you at the conference.